Patients (bound records) 1959-1988; patients (unbound records) 1939-1948; buildings 1953-1954
Bangour General Hospital
This material is held atLothian Health Services Archive
- Reference
- GB 239 LHB40
- Dates of Creation
- 1939-1988
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 5.3 shelf metres: bound volumes, papers
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Bangour General Hospital was built during the Second World War as an annexe to Bangour Village Hospital for Mental Diseases and was run by the Department of Health for Scotland under the Emergency Hospitals Scheme. When the demand for beds to treat war-time casualties did not materialise, accommodation was made available to a neuro-surgical unit working in conjunction with the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Tuberculosis patients also began to be admitted, and facilities to treat plastic and facio-maxillary surgery and thoracic surgery were established. In 1974 it was decided to build a new general hospital for West Lothian at Livingston, and in 1989 services began to be transferred there. Bangour General Hospital closed in the early 1990s.
Arrangement
Chronological within record class
Access Information
Normal 75 year Scottish closure rules apply
Acquisition Information
Jim Eunson, West Lothian NHS Trust
Note
Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists
Other Finding Aids
Manual item-level descriptive list available
Custodial History
Records held within the National Health Service prior to transfer
Accruals
Further accessions are expected
Bibliography
Hendrie, W.F. and MacLeod, D.A.D. The Bangour story: a history of Bangour Village and General Hospitals. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1992